At night, I experience more difficulty connecting to the faster 5G band 41. Later in the night, it sometimes doesn’t even appear as an option, and I experience random connection drops.
During the daytime, I also occasionally lose connection. Rebooting the Invisagig device seems to improve stability.
I’m using the Waveform 4x4 panel antenna. My daytime speed tests average around 400 Mbps download, 20 Mbps upload, and 30-40 ms ping, as long as I remain connected to 5G band 41.
I am using a T-Mobile for Business Go5G Business Plus plan. I utilize NSA 5G and have disabled Standalone (SA) mode. I do this because, as I understand it, T-Mobile’s SA mode uses only IPv6 with some weird IPV4 translating stuff, whereas NSA allows me to exclusively use IPv4. This resolves many connection issues I encounter with game servers.
Hi @braduser ,
Thank you for your questions! From your description it sounds like your connection to n41 may not be very strong or your local tower is having some stability issues. When you have a moment, can you please share screenshots of Modem Info (non-logged in version so that your IMEI is redacted), Live Signal, and the results of a 5G SA Tower Search? I would like to see the Tower/Cell ID with signal metrics to assess further before making a recommendation.
Yes, with some games and IoT devices 5G SA can present some issues. However, there can be some workarounds for this. In any case, have you tried enabling the Connection WatchDog feature which can automatically help reconnect the InvisaGig when the connection is observed to drop or become poor? There is also Scheduled Reboots which can help temporarily increase your priority on the tower if your connection is affected due to congestion.
This is taken at the time i have issues with connecting to band 41 on NSA. I will take again when it works usually in morning time. (Current time this test was taken was 12/5/24 @ 0240)
Unfortunately without any Tower ID/Cell info it would not be possible for us to confirm where your n41 signal is coming from to make further recommendations. If you would prefer to send the unredacted screenshots with those details via DM or email (info at invisagig dot com) this would be a great help
From your scan results it would appear you have two different slices of n41 close to you with one having a slightly better signal strength. Due to myriad factors your IG may be attempting to connect to the one with the worse signal which could result in inconsistent behavior. If we can find your local towers then reorientation of your directional panel antenna towards the stronger n41 signal may improve consistency.
Also, you may want to remove n25 from your list of Enabled Bands under 5G NSA to eliminate the possibility of the IG attempting to connect to that as well since it would be slower than n41. I see you have already removed n71 in this way.
Since an LTE band is still your primary connection under 5G NSA, you may also want to look at excluding some LTE bands from the Enabled Bands list there as well. I would observe which LTE band you are connected to during the good performance window where n41 is connecting as desired and remove the others shown in your LTE Tower Search from Enabled Bands.
Not all LTE bands in every market will aggregate with n41 under 5G NSA. For example, your LTE band during the times you see bad performance may be switching to B12 which prevents it from aggregating with n41 for faster speeds, so removing B12 from the LTE Enabled Bands would force it to use B2 or B4 (B4 is also show as B66) which may aggregate with n41 for you. Even though B12 has the strongest signal, it often lacks the bandwidth and aggregation capabilities of B2 and B4 (B66).
I might be able to source for you some panel antennas that are even more powerful and are narrowed down to just the right range for n41. I did a similar build for old Sprint b41 back in the day. It was SOLID.
I’ve been checking, and it seems I am able to connect to n41 at night but only using 5g SA. Of course, I can still connect to the n41 throughout the day when I force NSA, but it seems that it won’t let me connect at night.
Do you guys think T-Mobile has the tower set this way to purposely not allow NSA n41 connections at certain times? I’m just confused because if I use SA, there is never any issue with the n41 connection.
It is certainly possible there is a tower-specific issue going on here possibly related to capacity during peak use hours for your area but I could not say if this was was truly intentional by T-Mobile. Bear in mind that under NSA you would likely only see the aggregation with n41 occur during heavier download use as well, whereas aggregation may not be active during periods of lower use on your connection.
I am not sure what NSA aggregation combos your tower allows but you could try using Enabled Bands on the InvisaGig to see if a different LTE primary band allows more consistent behavior with n41 aggregation. For example, if your current LTE band under NSA (that has trouble aggregating with n41 consistently) is B2, you could remove that from the LTE Enabled Bands list thus forcing a connection on another LTE band such as B4 etc. (assuming another primary LTE band is available and has decent signal strength).
